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General Contact Jeanette Hvarregaard DRUID Secretary
DRUID is associated with the journal Industry and Innovation, published by Routledge. Currently in its 16th year and with bi-monthly publications, Industry and Innovation is listed in Thomson Reuter's Web of Science/SSCI and has a global editorial board of distinguished innovation scholars. Industry and Innovation publishes high-quality original scholarship on tendencies in industrial dynamics, such as the emergence of new industries; restructuring of existing industries; rise of new institutional and organizational forms; globalization; and other aspects of geographical organization.
DRUID is a core member of DIME: a EU sponsored network of excellence of social scientists, working on the economic and social consequences of increasing globalization and the rise of the knowledge economy.
6th Framework Programme of the European Union
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DRUID Debates (Video)The DRUID Debates aim at stimulating civilized controversy and advance the field of industrial dynamics by clarifying and developing intellectual positions in fundamental or currently heated debates. The debates are structured to help identify common grounds and lines of division within the field, and to encourage conference participants and subsequent website viewers to take sides and become persuaded by arguments presented.
June 19, 2009, Moderator: Mark Dodgson Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that empirical evidence on industrial dynamics favors organizational ecology" Speaking FOR the motion: Laszlo Polos and Stanislav D. Dobrev Speaking AGAINST the motion: Giovanni Dosi and Bart Verspagen
June 17, 2009, Moderator: David Gann Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that the notion of prediction has high value as a criterion for research in social sciences" Speaking FOR the motion: Will Mitchell and Anne Marie Knott Speaking AGAINST the motion: Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Paul Nightingale
THE SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF GAME THEORY June 20, 2008, Moderator: Thorbjørn Knudsen Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that sophisticated analyses based on game theory have made no significant contribution to the understanding of real quesions of business strategy" Speaking FOR the motion: Sidney G. Winter and Dan Levinthal Speaking AGAINST the motion: Bruno Cassiman and Peter Zemsky
June 19, 2008, Moderator: Olav Sorenson Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that network dynamcis are an essential variable in any explanation of innovation" Speaking FOR the motion: Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith Speaking AGAINST the motion: Francesco Lissoni and Elaine Romanelli
June 18, 2008, Moderator: Anita McGahan Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that in order to improve the quality and impact of empirical research on industry dynamics we should descourage the use of patent data measure innovation." Speaking FOR the motion: Maryann Feldman and Myriam Mariani Speaking AGAINST the motion: Joanne Oxley and Bronwyn Hall
METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM versus SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS June 19, 2007, Moderator: Keld Laursen Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that the lack of methodological individualism applied in strategy research seriously limits scientific progress in the field." Speaking FOR the motion: Peter Abel and Nicolai Foss Speaking AGAINST the motion: Sidney G. Winter and Thorbjørn Knudsen
DYNAMICS CAPABILITES and ADAPTATION June 20, 2007, Moderator: Peter Maskell Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conferences believes that the study of dynamic capabilities leads to a dead end. Rather, to further our understanding of firm performance we need to study organizational adaptation rather than dynamic capabilities". Speaking FOR the motion: Dan Levinthal and William C. Ocasio Speaking AGAINST the motion: Gautam Ahuja and Kathleen Eisenhardt
June 20, 2006, Moderator: Ammon Salter Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that users are the primary source of innovations in the economy and therefore the central role of business firms is to enable and harness these users' innovations rather than trying to innovate for them" Speaking FOR the motion: Dietmar Harhoff and Lars Bo Jeppesen Speaking AGAINST the motion: Deborah Dougherty and Gautam Ahuja
June 19, 2006. Moderator: Virginia Acha Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that social networks play a crucial role in facilitating regional economic development and the emergence and persistence of industrial clusters" Speaking FOR the motion: Olav Sorenson and Jesper B. Sørensen Speaking AGAINST the motion: Alfonso Gambardella and Scott Stern
FIRM STRATEGY OR INDUSTRY AFFILIATION? June 29, 2005. Moderator: Keld Laursen Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that industry structure is a central determinant of firm performance and that the scope for firm strategy is limited accordingly" Speaking FOR the motion: Anita McGahan and Janet Bercovitz Speaking AGAINST the motion: Alfonso Gambardella and Sidney Winter
OFFSHORING INTELLECTUAL LABOUR June 28, 2005 Moderator: Peter Maskell Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that offshoring intellectual labour is the first stage in the true globalisation of innovation and the end to the knowledge-based comparative advantage of currently developed countries" Speaking FOR the motion: Daniele Archibugi and Suma S. Athreye Speaking AGAINST the motion: Michael Storper and Meric Gertler
June 27, 2005 Moderator: Jens Frøslev Christensen Motion: "Let it be resolved that this conference believes that Open Innovation is a broadly expanding new paradigm in managing innovation implying that the scope for tight appropriability regimes and core competencies is decreasing" Speaking FOR the motion: Henry Chesbrough and Richard N. Langlois Speaking AGAINST the motion: Constance Helfat and Ammon Salter
Key Notes (Video)Steven Klepper: "Intra-Industry Spinoffs and the Formation of Clusters" Bo Carlsson: "Industrial Dynamics: A Review of the Literature 1985-2000" Eric von Hippel: "The Major Role of Clinicians in th Discovery of Off-Label Drug Therapies"
Sidney Winter: "Replicating Organizational Knowledge: Principles or Templates?"
Stan Metcalfe: "The Evolution of Industrial Dynamics"
Plenary Paper Presentations (Video)Industry Dynamics and Resource Advantage, June 17, 2009. Chair: Nils Stieglitz Economic Geography Frontiers, June 19, 2008. Chair: Peter Maskell
Entrepreneurship, June 18, 2008. Chair: Serden Özcan
Markets for Technology, June 18, 2008. Chair: Marco Giarratana
Signals and Syndicates, June 18, 2007. Chair: Mark Dodgson
Panel Debates (Video)Entrepreneurship Research – Present and Future June 17, 2008, Chair Maryann Feldman Panel participants: Scott Stern, Steven Klepper, Woody Powell, Elaine Romanelli and Nicos Nicolaou
Competition Policy in Dynamic, Innovation-led Markets June 27, 2005 . Chair: Peter Møllgaard. Round table discussion on: "How do we best deal with R&D cooperation, research consortia, research joint ventures and R&D alliances?" Panel participants: Claes Bengtsson, Sven Hylleberg, Luke Froeb and Peter Møllgaard Director's Conference WelcomePeter Maskell, June 17, 2009
Peter Maskell, June 18, 2008
Peter Maskell, June 18, 2007
Peter Maskell, June 18, 2006
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